Aquifoliaceae

 Ilex - Holly

Related Topics:
Ilex - Holly

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 Nemopanthus - Mountain holly

Related Topics:
Nemopanthus - Mountain holly

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Aquifoliaceae is a small plant family with two genera, by far the best-known being Ilex, the hollies, a large genus with about 600 species distributed nearly world-wide, absent only from Australasia and western North America. They are shrubs and small trees, including both evergreen and deciduous species. Many of them are highly decorative.

Related Topics:
Plant - Ilex - Hollies - Australasia - North America - Evergreen - Deciduous

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The other genus, Nemopanthus, only contains one species, Nemopanthus mucronatus, which differs from Ilex in the flowers having a reduced calyx and narrow petals, and also in cytology, being tetraploid, whereas Ilex is diploid.

Related Topics:
Nemopanthus - Flower - Calyx - Petal - Cytology - Tetraploid - Diploid

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American hollyfoliage and berries

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